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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 137
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While in captivity, the Jews wept by the rivers of Babylon—Because of sorrow, they could not bear to sing the songs of Zion.
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By</span> the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
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We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us <i>required of us</i> mirth, <i>saying,</i> Sing us <i>one</i> of the songs of Zion.
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How shall we <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/137/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Neh. 2: 3.">sing</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s song in a strange land?
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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget <i>her cunning.</i>
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Remember, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the children of <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/137/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 25: 12 (12-14).">Edom</a> in the day of Jerusalem; who said, <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/137/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 35: 5 (1-15).">Rase</a> <i>it,</i> rase <i>it,</i> <i>even </i>to the foundation thereof.
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O daughter of <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/137/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 47: 1.">Babylon</a>, who art to be destroyed; happy <i>shall he be,</i> that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
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Happy <i>shall he be,</i> that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
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